Sustainable Development

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1. What role does Rio Principle 22 assign to indigenous peoples and local communities?
2. A sustainable-development plan promotes new technology but deliberately prohibits scientific and technological knowledg…
3. Officials call a plan sustainable but deliberately exclude women from all environmental-management decisions solely bec…
4. A proposed project may significantly affect the environment and requires national-authority approval. Officials describ…
5. A plan invokes local knowledge to advertise sustainability but bars the indigenous communities concerned from effective…
6. Explain how Rio Principles 8 and 9 link sustainable development to production and consumption reform and scientific cap…
7. An environmental plan excludes women and affected indigenous communities from decisions while describing itself as sust…
8. A profitable project likely to have significant adverse environmental impact is subject to national approval. Officials…